GREG ROSS TAYLOR

I’ll be taking a break from blogging and email from May 26-June 5. In the meantime, visit the blog of my friend, Keith Brenton. Keith is helping take us to the next level in our Wineskins site and MUCH more is to come later this year. Keith will be joining our Wineskins team as our…

Today is the last day of school for my children and for Jill, who teaches Algebra and Geometry in a city school. This year has been a challenge for all of us, and frankly I think we’re all happy it’s coming to a close today. After celebrating with Jill and the children this afternoon, I’ll…

My journeys have taken me from the place of my birth, Oklahoma, to Arkansas for college at Harding University to the school’s study abroad program in Florence, Italy then to Houston and on to Uganda with a group of dear friends and teammates to Nashville to work with Wineskins and now full circle back to…

How to pray with the birds: 1. Wake up 2. Walk outside where there’s a lot of trees 3. Listen 4. Hear the blending of birdsong 5. Pick out certain ones 6. Count how many different songs there are 7. Listen for rhythm and rhyme of the song 8. Listen for mockingbirds who mimick the…

Jacob, 6, has more than once given lavishly from his personal savings piggy bank. He is very good with numbers and counts his change and dollars and ciphers out how much he has by writing down pennies, nickels, dimes, quarters, dollars he has then adding them together. This evening we wondered aloud why his bank…

Last night a man in a wheel chair who’d recently moved from West Virginia, a former science teacher named Richard Austin, came to our fifth and sixth grade class and taught an object lesson. He brought a sack of tools and hardware and had asked me to bring empty “pop cans,” as he called them.…

I met Daniel Mwasa November 1994 in a crowd of young men fishing in Lake Victoria. Daniel stood tall above the rest. If I were a college basketball recruiter, I’d have signed the twenty-five-year-old because of his physical stature. I later learned Daniel couldn’t hit the side of the Boston Garden with a basketball. What…

Hello, my name is Greg Taylor, and I have ARD. A lot of people are suffering these days from ARD: Attention Requirement Disorder. Notably, ministers often crave attention, recognition and affirmation and therefore “suffer” from ARD. But ministers aren’t the only ones who contract ARD. Artists, writers, bloggers, doctors, teachers and those in many other…

Jacob, 6, was talking to his sister, Anna, 8, and this is what we overheard: I’m gonna give mom five dollars for Mother’s Day . . . she deserves some money. After running to the store for a couple last minute items for Mother’s Day, thinking I’d help my children make their mother’s day, I…

I’ll be at the Pepperdine lectures later this week. If you’re going to the lectures, here’s your “personal” invitation to the Wineskins early morning devotional, Wednesday at 7:30am in Smothers theatre. I’ll also be speaking 2 pm Wednesday about my novel, High Places. I was pleased that Brian McLaren recently recommended High Places.